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Effects of Ownership Structure on the Performance of Listed Companies on the Ghana Stock Exchange

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Title Effects of Ownership Structure on the Performance of Listed Companies on the Ghana Stock Exchange
 
Creator churchill, ransford quarmyne
 
Description Every business organisation has an important decision of making returns. This decision also affects its capital base and the decision of either going for equity financing or debt financing. The stock markets are widely viewed as important, if not essential, for the functioning of modern capitalist economies. In Ghana, a huge gap exists in literature on the impact of ownership structure and a firm performance as well as the measure of ownership structure and whether or not the endogeneity of ownership structure affect performances of firms. This paper therefore sought to determine the relationship between the ownership structure of listed firms and performance on Stock Market.  The paper made used of secondary data and the data were analyzed using Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation and Logistic Regression. The first finding indicates that there is a significant negative relationship between ownership concentration and firm performance. The second finding shows a positive relationship between insider ownership and firm performance. The paper recommends that there is dire need to reasonably diversify shareholding as a way of attracting more skills and competencies among the shareholders that can be tapped to improve firm performance. At the same time, the managers should be protected from unnecessary direct interference by the shareholders.
 
Publisher Archives of Business Research
 
Contributor Alexander Owiredu, Pentecost University College
Moses Oppong, Pentecost University College
 
Date 2014-08-30
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.scholarpublishing.org/index.php/ABR/article/view/70
10.14738/abr.24.346
 
Source Archives of Business Research; Vol 2, No 4 (2014): Archives of Business Research; 86
2054-7404
10.14738/abr.24.2014
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.scholarpublishing.org/index.php/ABR/article/view/70/207